disert

comparative more disert · superlative most disert

1. obsoleterareEloquent.

   […]for whence[…]can they better derive the Principles of that Science, than from this most Disert Poet[…]

   1675, Edward Sherburne, quoting Joseph Scaliger, “Preface”, in The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix

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   To John Foxe, his honoured Father, the faithfull Martyrologian[…]a most disert searcher into the Antiquities of Histories[…]

   1637, Jacob Verheiden, translated by Donald Lupton, The history of the moderne protestant divines, page 282

   […]not that they are better, or more disert and eloquent than those [sc. books] of this learned Scotchman[…]

   1661, Gabriel Naudé, translated by John Evelyn, Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme, page 45

plural diserts

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of desert.
2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of dessert.

present singular third person diserts · participle present diserting · participle past diserted · past diserted

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of desert.